Comments on: Victory Square: What was there before?

By: Gloria Huston

Gloria Huston — Sun, 15 May 2022 23:34:07 +0000

I also wanted to add to my former comment. I went to the old Kingsway West elementary school where Metrotown now sits. Oh the good old days. My Mother (Bless her heart) planted a tree at the end of Dow Rd. near the sky-train entrance at Metrotown where my Brothers ashes are planted beneath in 1982.

By: Jean Honig

Jean Honig — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 20:00:48 +0000

In reply to Donna Dykeman. interesting fact s ! thanks for sharing !

By: Louise Pitre

Louise Pitre — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 19:55:51 +0000

Seems fitting that the cenotaph to honour WW1 casualties was built where there had been recruitment for WW1 soldiers. Vancouver just keeps changing. I’ve been away for 12 years and I’m worried I’ll only recognize the mountains and the ocean when I return. The provincial court house must have been a beautiful solid building. It’s surprising it wasn’t repurposed once its use outgrew the space. Too much crime for such a small space.

By: Bill Millier

Bill Millier — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 19:28:44 +0000

Hastings and Hamilton St on the northwest corner of the Square is also the first Street corner in and start of Vancouver’s street map.

By: Nathan Woods

Nathan Woods — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 16:31:27 +0000

Do you know who bought the land from the Tabernacle? Did the Southams, and did they sell it or donate it to the city?

By: Don Cracraft

Don Cracraft — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:54:05 +0000

I really hate to see the past lost. Revitalized! I like that word. Low-income housing needs tight controls that usually require government control at prevent such an area changing over to an area to avoid….

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By: Donna Dykeman

Donna Dykeman — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 19:04:50 +0000

In reply to Donna Dykeman. Still is ...

By: Donna Dykeman

Donna Dykeman — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 19:04:02 +0000

In reply to Donna Dykeman.

Typo! 1920s, not 1020s Cambie … that would be the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and T’seil-Waututh peoples …

By: Donna Dykeman

Donna Dykeman — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 18:59:32 +0000

Thanks, Eve! I have worked in both the Dominion Building and Cambie and Pender (with frequent visits to VCC), and have spent a lot of time in Victory Square (look at all that free parking on 1020s Hamilton and Cambie!). Just wanted to note that the contemporary lamp standards there featuring WWI-style military helmets are by architectural designers Bill Pechet and Stephanie Robb (the latter also well-known for redesigning our city’s ‘Vancouver Specials’) … https://pechetstudio.com/portfolio/project-template-2020-4/

By: Anthony Maw

Anthony Maw — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 18:49:52 +0000

In the last 1925 photo of this article, you can see small sapling trees growing along Cambie, Pender, and Homer Streets. Those trees are now enormous-sized! One of the huge trees along Cambie blew over in a wind storm a few years ago and crushed a car.

By: Jennifer Rogers

Jennifer Rogers — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 17:13:56 +0000

Fascinating Eve! Both my parents had offices in the Dominion Building. Any historical information you know about that building would be of interest. Thank you again.

By: Brad Williams

Brad Williams — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 16:44:03 +0000

Very interesting Eve! I also love the history of the Sinclair Centre, and how it came to be today. It was taken over in 1938, maybe worth a story. They completed many buildings back in the day, and many of them were replaced after twenty years or so. Why did many come down and why did some survive. Good day!

By: Loretta Houben

Loretta Houben — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 16:31:02 +0000

Very interesting, Eve! Thanks for the article.
What interested me even more was the Heritage Vancouver Top 10 2021 underneath, and #2 Food Hub near Joyce Station. I live in this area. I’m opposed to all the tall towers (such as the recent one at 5050 Joyce) and I’ve been to a few of the open houses. The people at the top building the towers etc have no desire to hear the resident’s concerns. I voiced some, and was talked down. All these little places of interest, such as the stores, will soon be gone; no one wants them as part of the landscape. Neither does it seem they want Carleton School at Joyce and Kingsway; it’s been closed for years due to arson. I wish I knew what they were going to do with it! Our way of life is changing a lot, but it has led me to write my own historical articles on this Collingwood area for the Renfrew Collingwood Community Newspaper, and I’ve enjoyed researching about it before it has vanished entirely. Thanks for your inspiration!